Harley D - minus 4 weeks

Having done a straw poll of several friends the jury is still out on whether I am going through a mid-life crisis (early of course....) or whether the wild-child is starting to re-emerge (though frankly, I am not sure she ever went away.  Maybe just a forced vacation).  The talk about getting a dragon tattoo isn't helping of course.   I prefer to think of it as a re-alignment of my perspective on life, afterall, we are just a collection of atoms that nature will eventually re-distribute.  I'd like mine, if they were blown up large enough to see.... and atoms are really, really small - if you wanted to see the atoms in a drop of water, you would have to make the drop 24 kilometres across.... to say 'handle with care'.  Does that mean my personal atoms are fragile or explosive?  Not sure is the truth.  But either way, best not put me in the post.    

Having not ridden a bike for a very long time, I was somewhat nervous, to say the least, of bowling up to Sycamores in Uppingham and asking for a test ride.  Wandering into the showroom one Saturday afternoon though, seduced by the chrome and custom paint jobs of the bikes through the plate glass window (Harley Davidson garages should be covered up, like sex shops, to not distract you from real and wholesome errands like buying the groceries), it was only a matter of time before I was having a chatty conversation with the salesman along the lines of 'so, what's the delivery time' and 'can you tell me if there is a bouyant resale market'.  It was really a very slippery slope and being a good salesman, he knew it.  Suddenly I found myself with a free Harley screensaver and a document in triplicate headed up 'Deposit' bearing something that looks alarmingly like my signature ( I think I must have blanked out at some point).  But it's a beauty and feels as good to ride as to look at.  Mid-life-wild-child.  It has a certain ring to it.....

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